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John Stephens Durham, assistant editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, named minister to Haiti.
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3
1891
Lionel Hampton
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Marie Laveau, the "Queen of the Voodoos,"
Marie Laveau, the Queen of the Voodoos, was dethroned because of old
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Jun
7
1868
Martin Luther King,Jr. Ordained
Martin Luther King ordained as a Baptist minister
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Feb
25
1948
Thornton, Willie Mae “Big Mama” (1926-1984)
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton was a blues singer and songwriter whose recordings of “Hound Dog” and “Ball ‘n’ Chain” later were transformed into huge hits by Elvis Presley and Janis
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Jul
25
1984
First Black minister to serve for a White congregation, Lemuel Haynes was born,
First Black minister to serve for a White congregation, Lemuel Haynes was born, 1753
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Jul
18
1753
Warren Moon
Warren Moon is a retired football player, who played for the Canadian and American football leagues. He was born in Los Angeles, California on November 18, 1956 and was the only brother of 6 sisters. His father was a laborer who died of liver disease when Warren was a young child and his mother was
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Nov
18
1956
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
April 20, 1993, Argued
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Howell, Abner Leonard (1877-1966)
Abner Leonard Howell was a star athlete in Utah whose accomplishments went largely ignored during the peak of his football career because of his
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Aug
9
1877
(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”
Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans.  By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa.   One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister
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Jul
4
1830
Tarik, the Moor, invades Spain.
On April 30, 711AD General Tarik al Gibral, a Nafza Berber after whom the famed Rock of Gibralter is named, crossed to Andalus (Spain under the Visigoths) with a force of seven thousand troops. After several battles in which the Visigoths were completely routed, the Moorish-Berber-Arab force
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Apr
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1971
Slavery
Africans accompany Spanish explorer Hernando de Sotos on a expedition and settles among Native Americans in the territory of present-day Alabama.
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Jan
0
1539
new democracy constitution in South Africa
Black and white leaders in South Africa approved the new democracy constitution that gave blacks the vote and ended white minority rule.
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Nov
18
1993
Estavanico Dorantes leads expedition
Estavanico Dorantes, a black Moorish slave, leads a Spanish expedition to the southwestern North Ameican continent in search for El Dorado, the lost City of Gold. Their search is unsuccessful and Estavanico is later killed by native peoples.
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Mar
7
1539
Henry Highland Garnet born a slave
Henry Highland Garnet, minister, abolitionist and diplomat, born a slave in Kent County, Maryland.
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Dec
23
1815
Baca, Susana (1944- )
Susana Baca, recording artist and the first Afro-Peruvian to sit as a Cabinet Minister, was born in 1944 in Chorrillos, a seaside district of Lima, Peru, to a working class family. Her father was a chauffeur and her mother worked as cook and laundress for upper class families. Baca began singing at
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Rev. George Leile
Rev. George Leile was the first African American to be ordained a Baptist minister in America. He was an early pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Silver Bluf, South Carolina. Curiously, he supported the British during the American Revolutionary war because of the Britishs promise to free
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Jan
0
1770
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz musician who is widely credited as being one of the creators of modern day jazz. He was born on October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina to Thelonious and Barbara Monk. He had an older sister named Marion and a younger brother named Thomas. When
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Oct
10
1917
The National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists3000 members strong with 74 affiliated professional chapters and 51 student chapters, is the largest media organization for people of color in the world. Founded December 12, 1975, our mission is to strengthen ties among African-American
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Dec
12
1975
Slavery
Africans accompany Pedro Mendez, Spanish settler in founding St. Augustine, FL, the oldest permanent US city founded by Europeans.
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Jan
0
1565
Samuel Ringgold Ward, minister, abolitionist,
Samuel Ringgold Ward, minister, abolitionist, author, born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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Oct
17
1817
Nine Black students started Little Rock high school, 1957
Nine Black students started Little Rock high school, 1957
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Sep
24
1957
Alexander Clark, named minister to Liberia
Alexander Clark, journalist and lawyer, named minister to Liberia.
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Aug
16
1890
Foster, Abigail Kelley
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NAACP report
NAACP report said 1946 was one of the grimmest years in the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The report deplored reports of blow torch killing and eye-gouging of Negro veterans freshly returned from a war to end torture and racial extermination and said
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Jan
3
1947
Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955
During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in Seattle’s first black musicians’ union, the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458.  Wright,  Virginia Hughes, a “Mrs. Austin,” and (Edythe) “Turnham,” all
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Evelyn Boyd Granville is born
Evelyn Boyd Granville, Born May 1, 1924 in Washington, D.C. and attended Dunbar High School, a segregated high school at the time. Her interest in mathematics was encouraged by two mathematics teachers. Granville worked with Einar Hille, a distinguished mathematician in the field of functional
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May
1
1924
Slavery
Africans accompany Spanish colonizer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon
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Jan
0
1526
James Meredith
James Meredith is a 20th century eminent American Civil Rights Movement figure. He was involved in political advisory committee and also wrote about the social inequality issues. Besides, he was a war veteran and was the first black to be admitted in an all-white
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Jun
25
1933
Aretha Franklin
Born: 3/25/1942 Memphis, TennesseeAretha Franklin is an American singer and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklins church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only
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